1st Post-charrette Coffee Klatch Recap

After some scheduling conflicts, we finally had the opportunity to meet and discuss one of the main next steps post-charrette: The festival street (need to come up with a better name for it) located between 300 and 400 West on 700 South. Thank you to the Barretts for hosting again at the Utah Pickle Factory, Doug Woodruff for bringing the print-outs, and to all who came.

We talked about the 2nd Annual Granary District Block Party coming up on June 15, knowing it's short notice, but we want to leverage the events happening the same night through Green Drinks and the Young Architect Forum. We're going to drop some containers in the middle of the street where the festival street will be and have food vendors, music and more just for the evening!

Then we switched gears to the Festival Street and all agreed that it is a project worth doing, and something that will be a relatively easy way to start creating meaningful light infrastructure in the neighborhood to get things going.

Then we decided the next steps need to be programming the street. In the charrette drawing of the festival street, as a base plan, we have an outdoor stage for neighborhood concerts/events, containers for small incubator space, food carts, a beer garden and other open space:

These above images show these base plan ideas, but are we missing anything that should be incorporated into the street design? Brook Oswald thinks that incorporating an agricultural use is important, like bees or small garden plots.

What do you think?

We're going to work on finalizing a plan through online collaboration, then meet in person and start to create committees and timelines to open the festival street next May!

So stay tuned and give your input.

Meeting minutes:

Leverage Next Steps Around CNU Conference The design is on PAPER. Therefore, we can leverage real ideas from the neighborhood forward using the template that is on paper. How this promotes what the neighborhood is all about? This street reflects the narrative Reflects Home-GROWN = Speaking directly to the neighborhood as a true crowd-sourced initiative

Have you talked to the property owners along that street? Buy-In from: Roller Derby Car-Museum Kevin Blalock

Potential 24,000 sq ft of leasable space...

QUESTIONS TO THE LEASES? WHO COLLECTS THE RENT? Respect the potential competition between local property and land owners

Salt Lake City has a history of trusting non-profit organizations for the new leasable space (sq ft) Then the non-profit designates bylaws that reinvest dividends into the district and infrastructure for the district

COMPLEMENT vs. COMPETITION

The people running the incubator space should be art-space oriented. Local, art-based, artisanal, small-business, focused!

2nd Annual Block Party - June 15, 2012 (5-8pm) Univ of Utah - The Foundry Jane's Walk Young Architects (1,500 People List Serve) Green Drinks (1,500 People List Serve) Live Music with a local kilby court show that night Local Food from Last Block Party - - - Similar to last block party - - - - - - (but different components......!!!!) ?Roller Derby?